1. 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival “Complexity Science Meets Social Science” PI Prof Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey Network Coordinator, Alison Cooper

2. “About the Complexity Science in the Real World Network….

3. Projects Map Project Map CLC - Care Life Cycle, Southampton
ERIE - Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems, Surrey
ENFOLDing - Explaining and Forecasting of Global Dynamics, UCL London
SCID – Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity, Manchester
Project Map
SCID
ENFOLDing
ERIE
CLC

4. Project Timelines Project 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 CSRWn CLC
36 months
CLC
60 months
ENFOLD
ERIE
72 months
SCID

5. Scale of Projects (People and Finances as in Original Applications)
PhD Students
Total Staff
PIs/Co-Is
Researcher PIs
PDRAs
Co-ordinators
Budget £
CSRW 1
1 or 4
124762
CLC 4 16 10 5
ERIE 9 13 7
ENFOLD
SCID 2
TOTAL 20 56 31 18

6. Aims and Objectives
1. Develop a national profile for an inter-disciplinary network devoted to applicability of complexity theory
2. Inform policy makers and influence the debate on policy issues with new perspectives and insights
3. Establish a creative network environment that will give rise to conceptual advances and effective applications
4. Promote the four Complexity Science for the Real World programmes as a unified network
5. Cultivate a cohesive relationship between the four CSRW programmes, thus facilitating dissemination of expertise
6. Support the development of further interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary projects

7. “Complexity Science Meets Social Science”
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“Complexity Science Meets Social Science”
5th ESRC Research Methods Festival Session
Monday 2nd July 2012
15.30 – 17.00

8. Session Programme Time Item Speaker 15.30
Introduction to session and CSRW network
Alison Cooper
15.35
‘Complexity Theory’ and the Social Science – Systems and Models
Professor Seth Bullock
15.55
Developing a Model of Trust in Communities
Dr Nick Shryane
16.15
Modelling Spatial and Intervention Effects from London Riots Data
Dr Hannah Fry
Speakers will take Q&A as a panel
All
17.00
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9. Systems can be social and are of interest to Social Scientists Mathematical Modelling and Complexity Theory can be applied to and informed by social challenges How is this being employed to understand the social challenges of ‘Community Trust’ and the ‘London Riots’?

10. What do these case studies have in common?